Rockville Bridge Derailment At around 4pm on December 27, 2010 Norfolk Southern's 21T, traveling from Harrisburg to Chicago, derailed on the Rockville Bridge as a result of 50 mph wi... (more)

Shortly before 6 a.m. on April 10th NECR's northbound train 323 hit a washout in Westminster VT along the Connecticut River. The lead unit made it over, and as you can see the trailing units weren... (more)

A broken axle was the cause of this derailment that sent a bunch of well cars and their containers to the ground in Hager City, Wisconsin. Clean up started soon after and went through the night to... (more)

One worker discusses on the radio the state 6015 is in while another prepares to pump diesel fuel out. The 6015 and 6063 derailed when the axle on CP 6063 broke.

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After a freak snow storm the day before, the bolts of a joint bar seen on the left have broken due to... (more)

The frames of either 755 or 760 lies in the yard of the BCR Workshops at Squamish in August 1985. Purchased new in 1980, both 755 and 760 were wrecked in June 1984 and were both retired the same y... (more)

A funny thing happened on the way to shoot a train on the former Mopac east of Pueblo, CO. I was just a few minutes behind this train that piled up 32 loaded hoppers bound for the power plant at S... (more)

The possible cause of the November 27th BNSF coal train derailment just east of Pueblo Colorado. the derailment occured around 8:00am and piled 31 cars into an almost two story high pile of coal a... (more)

A southbound BNSF coal train derailed around 8:00am November 27 2010 creating a large pile up. Shortly after leaving Pueblo Colorado the train jumped the tracks about 25 cars behind the locomotiv... (more)

DERAILMENT IN MIDVILLE: On November 21, 2010 at around 5:00pm EST, Norfolk Southern Train 192 (Macon, Georiga- Columbia, South Carolina freight) derailed 39 of its 90 car train, 14 of which wer... (more)

The loco that CN lent to the city to supply power during the ice storm crisis that lasted 6-7 days in January 98 being put back on the track.She had been moved about 500 ft from the crossing.

Southern Pacific GP35 7716 was built in February 1965. Later renumbered SP 6613, and then renumbered again to SP 6331, it was eventually sold to Northern Vermont as their 510, later becoming Cana... (more)

Oops! RFD 47234 has derailed on the fuel road at Saltley depot in Birmingham.

Today, the derail wins. Crews with the crane service work on getting the locomotive back on the rails.

Saving the saveable. The two boogies became the most valuable parts of the engine after the accident. To remove them workers had to cut through the holding irons. The rest of 1054 will be history ... (more)